Is it possible to FORMAT an external hard disk that has been encrypted using Storagecrypt?

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Published on 2012-06-03T16:08:03Z Indexed on 2012/06/03 16:42 UTC
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Basically the big problem is that about 680 GB of data from my Seagate 2 TB Ext HD is lost because I was experimenting with a software called storagecrypt. I used it a few months ago and today I tried it again but i didn't know that the old password is already set in the hard disk when I pressed the encrypt button.

I forgot the password which is disappointing. Not to mention that software uses 128 bit AES encryption so there is no way iam going to recover that data.

My question is that is it possible to Format my Hard disk which has been encrypted? What i mean is that is it possible to completely wipe the data just like it is newly bought so that I can use my External Hard disk?( I tried to format by right click-- Format. But the size of the disk is shown as 1 MB.

Answers would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

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